Curtain-clasp.



W'. H. WALLIN.

CURTAIN CLASP.

APPLIOATION IILEDMAY 16, 1912.

1,092,679, Patented Apr. 7, 1914.

' I By ATTORNEYS WILLIAM HENRY WALLIN, OF STROIVISBURG, NEBRASKA.

CURTAIN-CLASP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. Z, 1914.

Application filed may 16, 1912. Serial no. 697,793.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. WALLIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Stromsburg, in the county of Polk and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and Improved Curtain-Clasp, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to devices for clasp ing a curtain on a curtain pole to prevent the curtain from bunching and to maintain it properly draped.

An object of the invention is to provide a clasp having effective gripping engagement with a curtain.

A further object is to provide a clasp having a head of a character capable of a great variety of ornamental eifects.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description hereinafter to be given.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which simllar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a series of my improved clasps applied to a curtain for holding the same properly on its pole; Fig. 2 is a perspective view on a larger scale of one of the clasps; and Fig. 3 is a side view of the clasp applied to the curtain and pole, the pole being shown in section.

The clasp comprises a hook preferably formed of spring wire and composed of two spaced arms 10, the arms being joined by a U-bend 11, and to the front ends of the arms I aflix a head 12. The shanks or outer ends of the arms 10 in the illustrated form enter holes or sockets 13, the sockets being formed at one side of the center of the head so that the preponderating portion of the head will extend at one side of the arms and form a contracted inlet between the U-bend or bill 11 of the hook and the head. The shank of the hook enters directly in the substantially spherical head, at the inner side of the latter, and is fixedly embedded therein. The shank has an exposed portion and the bill presents a return bend extending forwardly and of a length approximately equaling the length of the exposed portion of the shank. The exposed portion of the shank, the adjacent inner side of the head and the end of the bill of the hook define a space to receive a curtain bar. The bill terminates at its outer end in an inward curve toward the head and 1s spaced from the head forming with the latter a contracted entrance to said space. In practice I prefer to form the head 12 of glass, and the heads may thus be made up in various colors, the glass thus presenting an ornamental appearance. At the back of the head the ball is preferably flattened, as at 14, to give a broader gripping surface on the curtain 15.

The device is applicable to a curtain hung over a pole 16 in the usual way, and a plurality of clasps may be employed, as shown in Fig. 1. In applying the clasp, the head 12 is grasped and the hook is sprung over the curtain and pole at the back, the bill of the hook and the arms 10 yielding suficiently to permit the pole and the curtain to pass into the contracted opening leading into the interior of the hook, so that the surface 14: at the back of the head and the bill of the hook will pass below the center of the pole and the curtain will thus be grasped tightly and maintained in proper position on the pole. Advantageously the arms 10 may, in practice, he covered with rubber 17 or other material to increase the friction of the clasp.

The arms may be formed of wire covered with silk or other ornamental or protective material. The advantages of the wire are that it forms an eifective spring hook, and the spacing of the arms gives a better holding effect by engaging the curtain on spaced lines.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

A curtain clasp, comprising a substantially spherical head, and a hook having a bill and an integral shank, the shank being entered directly in the inner side of the head and fixedly embedded therein, said shank having an exposed portion and the bill presenting a return bend extending forwardly and of a length approximately equaling the length of the exposed portion of the shank; and the said exposed portion of the shank, the iidjacent inner side of the head and the end of the bill of the hook defining a spaceto receive a curtain bar; the bill ter- In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specificatlonin the presence of two subscrlbing witnesses.

minating at its outer end in an inward curve WILLIAM HENRY WALLIN. 5 toward the head and being spaced from the Witnesses: 5 t

head, forming with the latter, a contracted V. E. WILSON;

entrance to the mentioned space. A. B. HEDBLOOM.

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